II Congress on Sciences, Technologies and Cultures: Dialogue among the Disciplines of Knowledge Looking at the future of Latin America and the Caribbean October 29 and November 1 ,2010 at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile USACH The Study Net on Migrations, Nationalism and Citizenship (USACH 2008) invites you to take part in the Symposium. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Chile’
Thoughts on ‘Siútico’ by Oscar Contardo
Chile has a lively publishing industry that produces serious non-fiction on cultural themes, often Latin American, particularly Chilean. Given the issues of language and subject, these works are rarely read outside Latin America. The leading art theorist Ticio Escobar, for instance, is hardly translated into English at all. image Sometimes there are books that are [...]
Australia too far away and not South enough
image While this week the G20 summit of world leaders is meeting in London now, last week Chile hosted a gathering of policy thinkers to air ideas of how to go forward. The Progressive Governance conference certainly had political legs. It was hosted by the Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and had presentations from the British [...]
